intellectual and artistic elite to become (consciously or not)
obedient mouthpieces for liberal ideas and values.
What is the role of art in war?
Does art have a role to play amid the horrors of war?
Is it justifiable under such conditions? Or is it simply
an object of desire — a luxury, in other words? Is art
possible in a world plunged into chaos? Is it capable
of correcting misunderstandings? Or does it stand above
the fray, somewhere beyond our powers of understanding?
Art and culture are proof of civilization’s intellectual
development.
Time and again, art gives witness to an era and warns
us of things to come.
In my photographs, Donetsk is still free and
at peace. Art endeavors to show the multifariousness
of life without lies and distortions. Because art holds
a mirror to the world, it shines light and hope into the very
darkest corners of the earth.
“For art is the daughter of freedom, and it requires
its prescriptions and rules to be furnished by the necessity
of spirits and not by that of matter.” (Friedrich Schiller)